KARACHI, Nov 9: Bandits looted cash, jewellery and other valuables from political leader Mairaj Mohammed Khan’s house in Bahadurabad on Saturday.

Mr Khan told Dawn that three youths came to his house, situated on the premises of Home Economics College in Bahadurabad, when he was not at home. They told his wife, Zubaida Mairaj, that they wanted to meet her husband.

He said his wife told them several times that her husband was not at home upon which the youths posed themselves as intelligence officials. Mr Khan’s wife took them inside the house where the youths held her hostage at gunpoint. Mr Khan said at the time of the robbery his daughter, son and daughter-in-law, with her four-months-old child, and a maidservant were present in the house. Two servants were outside the house, who were also called in and all of them were made hostage at gunpoint.

The bandits got way with 2,300 US dollars, 50,000 Pakistani rupees, jewellery and other valuables. They locked up Mr Khan’s family members in a store room before they escaped with the loot.